Responses of auditory-cortex neurons to structural features of natural sounds

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6715, 1999, Pages 154-157

  Nelken, Israel ^a   Rotman, Yaron ^a   Yosef, Omer Bar ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; EVOLUTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND INTENSITY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; NEURONS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND;

EID: 0033552959     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16456     Document Type: Article

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